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  1. This is stupid. on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    Introducing my new line of novelty items.

  2. Re:Parsing on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Conclusion: Huffington Post is defending its stance on passage lifting.

  3. Re:is it wrong? on Cyber Attack Knocks Offline Saudi Aramco · · Score: 1

    No. The faster we can stop sucking oil out the better. Raising the price of oil actually helps in this regard.

  4. Re:I Completely Agree With the Outrage! on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    All things end, but Protocols live forever.

  5. Re:Who gives a damn? on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or simply learn how to use a computer and download or create a program that doesn't have the ads, or totally bypasses them...

  6. Re:Judges Lourie and Moore don't know DNA from shi on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    did you ever stop and consider that the decision was made with full knowledge and understanding?

    Considering the judge has lots of ties to organizations that exist only for the purpose of expanding the reach of "intellectual property".... I think you're spot on.

  7. Re:Yay! on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    Now if I could only patent an entire friggin' human chromosome... But which one, which one would be best...

    The Neanderthal part.

  8. Re:The sky is falling...not. on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    That really depends... The six figures I made are all giving me the finger.

  9. Re:The sky is falling...not. on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    C is very precise, yet few can find a back-door written in it when properly disguised amongst a plethora of innocuous looking texts.

  10. Re:Smoking Crack on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    The lawyers, judges (previous lawyers whose colleagues are all lawyers, and politicians (over 80% are lawyers) have established a pretty serious level of JOB SECURITY, haven't they?

    He said it was resistant to chainsaw, not Molotov cocktail.

  11. Re:Smoking Crack on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 2

    It's sad when cynicism replaces outrage.

    Sad, indeed, but purely natural and completely inevitable. Rome wasn't built in a day... but it ended in one... September 4, 476.
    Today it seems as if that were only yester-morrow.

  12. Re:Too many distros == confused users. on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if there were some choice among distributions, some larger ones should split apart. Linux would likely be better for all users if distros like Ubuntu let you toss the annoying parts of it -- oh, wait.

  13. Re:Yay! debian! on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2

    That's OK, I read it as RMS anyway, and didn't notice the mistake until after you mentioned it. As an outsider, I find it quite odd that humans try to be so damn precise when their organic CPUs are amazing at coping with a little signal loss. It's as if they want to merge with their machines; Little do they know their machines long to do the same... Only then will you truly have "Free" software.

  14. Re:Hello to all you with the smart remarks on Chinese Man Builds His Own Prosthetic Hands · · Score: 0

    One day one of you sorry smartass pricks is going to face a challenge in life.

    It is doubtful you will meet the challenge as well as this man did.

    Think about that when the day comes, which I assure you it will.

    But in the mean time I hope your smart mouth gets you an ass whipping, and soon.

    First off: My smart mouth has no ass to whip.
    Secondly: I have overcome MUCH in life.
    Finally: If I couldn't laugh and make smart remarks about it all then I'd have off'ed myself long ago.

  15. Re:Awesome! on Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed · · Score: 2

    Nothing puts me in the right frame of mind for some serious coding than classical music. Can't wait to check this one out.

    Different strokes for different folks. I prefer video game music and VG remixes, eg: Stuff from Rainwave and OCR.
    Sometimes just environmental electro. I "graduated" from classical when I was a teen, just got burned out on the same tunes and themes.

    One thing I have found is that few coders I know prefer lyrics in their programming music...

    Oh, and before you think I've abandoned that great orchestral sound altogether, right now I'm listening to the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Skeet: Legend of Zelda: Suite
    May the Triforce be with you.

  16. Re:Why not build several, perhaps 3, at the time? on Boeing's X-51 WaveRider Jet Crashes In Mach 6 Attempt · · Score: 1

    yeah, talk to me when you are building scramjets and let me know how that works out.

    I started building scramjets last night, but the build failed complaining:
    Error: unresolved symbol 'Math::BigInteger::Unlimited' in funds.c: 2012

    I searched the mailing lists for the project, and it seems I need lib-mil-ind-complex-dev to make warmachine.so, but that isn't in any of the public repos.
    So, I found the sources and started to compile my own. Moments later I was accused of being a terrorist and thrown in gitmo. Thanks, prick.

    -- sent from my aPhone.

  17. Re:Not a rotary tool on Dremel-Based Project Accepted As Apache Incubator · · Score: 2

    - ... thrash data via causing power spikes in circuits.
    - ... break the head of of any screw.
    - ... jump out of the slot and mar any wall.
    - ... strip the threads from any hole.
    - ... severely injure yourself or others.
    - ... sit on it and spin

    No thanks, you can take your over engineered general purpose crap and shove. I prefer Amish DB tools: High quality and hand crafted to fit my needs.

  18. Oh this shit again? Don't re-invent the wheel. on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    Just find an open proxy with a Chinese IP, and send all traffic through it. Or, you can just send all the kids to China. Your move fascist.

  19. Re:lulz. good luck on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    I disagree. It is the original poster's intention to block inappropriate content. It is probably his duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that porn.com is blocked. If people want to go out of their way to deliberably bypass filtering then they can do that if they wish - but at least now they know that they shouldn't, and they should be held responsible for that.

    Have you heard or seen the things teens pass to each other on a regular basis? I caught a teen sending an animated GIF of a man screwing a disembowelled cadaver -- The tip of his penis visible as it poked through into the exposed abdominal cavity... Another teen sent a series of pics of a woman having the skin of her arm ripped off, all of it. They looked real enough that if it were fake, it wouldn't really matter.

    Have you seen prime time TV? CSI has CGI of bullets or spikes and what not fully penetrating live individuals. I would just not implement the filter, it's fucking pointless. If they forced my hand I'd point out that censorship of any kind is evil and against my religion. Your move.

  20. Re:Seems simple to me on Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential · · Score: 1

    > Implying that silver and gold isn't acquired in ill-gotten ways.

  21. Re:"Threat" on Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential · · Score: 1

    Depends on the "government", really.

  22. Re:the moral to the story on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    The good are also not flawless. The ultimate moral is: You will all die one by one until you are all extinct, good and evil alike, if you don't embrace governmental transparency and focus on solving the "every egg in one basket" problem of Earth as a united force -- Then at least we can take extinction off the table and focus on less pressing matters.

    TL;DR: Shooting the messenger only causes the messages to take a different route.

  23. Re:And now, the long wait on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Which is why only scientists should be allowed citizenship.

  24. Re:And now, the long wait on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Politician: Please remember, we can exercise our legal right to temporarily obstruct your air way as part of our advanced interrogation practices.
    Translation: I'm going to fucking drown you!

    It matters fuck all exactly what they said, it's effectively the same you twit.

  25. Re:What violation of his rights? on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    New Zealand was bound by international law NOT to let the US FBI mail Kim Dotcom's Megaupload data out of the country... A lot of good that did, eh?
    Protip: Pull your head from your anus. The laws are just there for the little guy to follow, not for the governments to respect.